tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67125547945416619022017-08-05T16:20:18.051-07:00Mid Argyll Kinship GroupBarry R McCainnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-51239411770937505222015-05-09T15:25:00.001-07:002015-05-09T15:25:24.229-07:00The Scots-Irish: Iníon Dubh, Scottish Princess<a href="http://thescotsirish.blogspot.com/2015/05/inion-dubh-scottish-princess.html?spref=bl">The Scots-Irish: Iníon Dubh, Scottish Princess</a>: model and photographer Niamh O'Rourke and actor, archaeologist, Dave Swift portray Iníon Dubh and Redshank in a recent Irish photo sho...Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-29849789700513100632015-05-02T12:08:00.000-07:002015-05-07T17:06:56.484-07:00The Mid Argyll MacAlpins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />﻿﻿<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4i7DHvJse-s/VUUj7uUeokI/AAAAAAAAEEM/KJ4bQjPwbxU/s1600/loch%2Bederline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="128" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4i7DHvJse-s/VUUj7uUeokI/AAAAAAAAEEM/KJ4bQjPwbxU/s1600/loch%2Bederline.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kilmichael Glassary Parish, Mid Argyll</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">The Mid Argyll Kinship DNA Project is a genetic genealogy research project on a group of families that share the same paternal ancestry, primarily from the parish of Kilmichael Glassary in mid Argyll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Two of the families in the group are the MacAlpins (Mac Ailpín) and MacCains (Mac Eáin).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The chronology of the common male ancestor of these two mid Argyll families is currently under study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Members of both families are doing the "Big Y" DNA test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The BIG Y is a direct paternal lineage test and explores deep ancestral links.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It tests both thousands of known branch markers and millions of places where there may be new branch markers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Both the Mac Ailpín and Mac Eáin families share SNP FGC19435 and the projected chronology to the TMRCA is</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> circa 500AD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The basic question is, are these MacAlpin families connected to the historical king from mid-Argyll, Coinneach Mac Ailpín (810 AD – 858 AD).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Coinneach Mac Ailpín was the first king of Scotland and founder of a dynasty which ruled Scotland for much of the medieval period.&nbsp; This would mean the entire Mid Argyll Kinship group descends paternally from this old Dal Riada family.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">The MacCains go back to a pivotal figure of Giolla Chríost who was a lord in Kilmichael Glassary in the 1200s.<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>He had three sons. One of these sons, Giolla Padraig, was the progenitor of the Cowal Clann Lachlainn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>His other two sons, Giolla Easpuig and Eoghann, had lands in Kilmichael Glassary in mid Argyll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The descendants of Giolla Easpuig and Eoghann eventually lost their lands in Glassary to the Scrymgeour family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In the late-1200s, Giolla Easpuig’s line failed to produce a male heir and their lands went to Ralf of Dundee by marriage. The lands of Eoghann were held by his son named Eáin, which passed to his sons by the 1340s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In 1346, the Scottish Crown forfeited the Glassary lands of Eáin’s sons to Gilbert of Glassary, who was a grandson of Ralf of Dundee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>So by the late 1300s, Gilbert of Glassary had acquired, technically that is, much of the lands of the descendants of Giolla Easpuig and Eoghann, the two sons Giolla Chríost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>However, Gilbert of Glassary produced no male heir and in the 1370s all of these lands went to Alexander Scrymgeour, who had married Agnes, the daughter and heiress of Gilbert of Glassary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">How much control the Scrymgeour family had over the lands that had belonged to Giolla Easpuig and Eoghann Mac Giolla Chríost is questionable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>At this time, Glassary was the epicenter of the Redshanks society. Redshanks were a warrior class in high demand as mercenaries in Scotland, Ireland, and Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>They were a law unto themselves. They were supported by the tenants of the lord, a practice called “sorning.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>One sixteenth-century Scottish observer complained that the Glassary Redshanks were, “wild men who cannot be coerced or punished by secular judge or power.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The local lore says, and it is probably correct, that the descendants of Eáin son of Eoghann Mac Giolla Chríost took the “clan” surname of their cousins, the Mac Lachlainns of Cowal, and remained on their lands in Glassary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It is also remembered that the Scrymgeours, quite wisely, made no changes and did not require rents, per se.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Given the remoteness of mid Argyll and the warlike nature of the local Gaels, the Scrymgeours showed wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The status of land possession in Glassary becomes clearer when a “McCain” family appears there in the 1430s and we are told they are of Clann Lachlainn.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">In 1432, a John M’Ean (Eáin Mac Eáin) appears in the Glassary writs selling a tract of land at Kilmun in Cowal to John Scrymgeour, son of Alexander.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In the writs, we are told John M’Ean’s uncle is Giolla Easpuig Mac Eáin, showing us they both were known by the same surname.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Then four years later, in 1436, Ailean Mac Eáin received a grant to extensive lands in Glassary which included many of the lands that had been held by Giolla Easpuig and Eoghann, the two sons of Giolla Chríost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Ailean Mac Eáin’s son, Dunnchadh Rua, is also listed as “McCain” in the 1400s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In other words, a McCain family appears on the scene in the 1430s in control of the lands held by Giolla Chríost’s two sons in Glassary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Alastair Campbell of Airds, the </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Officer of Arms of Scotland and historian, </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">noticed the appearance in Glassary of these McCains in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of Clan Campbell</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>When writing about the sale of land by John M’Ean to Sir John Scrymgeour he noted, “the lands of Kilmun presumably held by the MacIans or MaKanes, whoever they may have been.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Mac Phail, the editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Highland Papers</i>, also noticed this McCain group and observed they were probably descendants of Giolla Easpuig Mac Giolla Chríost.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I would agree with this observation, but suspect they were the descendants of Eáin the son of Eoghann Mac Giolla Chríost. This is why they were known in Gaelic as the Mac Eáin family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The salient point is that, from the early 1430s onward, there was a McCain family and Ailean Mac Eáin and his son Dunnchadh Rua were part of this family and they were connected to the Scrymgeour family through multiple marriages and land transactions.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Much of the history can be deduced from the lands themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Several of the Glassary lands that Eoghann and his brother Giolla Easpuig held are the same ones granted to Ailean Mac Eáin in 1436 and later held by his sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Put into a historical context, the 1400s were a golden age for the local Gaelic powers in mid Argyll and Eáin Mac Lachlainn’s (Taoiseach of Clann Lachlainn)&nbsp;grant to Ailean Mac Eáin reflects this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>There may have been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">official</i> land resignations, but the reality was Clann Lachlainn still retained control of much of their ancestral lands in Glassary and the 1436 grant confirms this.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">By the late 1500s, McCain was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fixed</i> as a surname. This was almost certainly done to distinguish them as the line of Ailean Mac Eáin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This use of the surname was noticed by local historian Herbert Campbell in the 1922, volume 38 edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Genealogist</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>As he put it, “it is practically sure that two of the three Johns nicknamed ‘reoch’ belonged to the Dunadd line, so that it looks as though the family were playing with the nickname.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“John Reoch” was Campbell’s way of anglicizing Eáin Riabhach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He was correct. The name was being used more at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>An example of what Herbert Campbell meant is seen in the name of Giolla Easpuig Mac Eáin Riabhach Mhic Dhonnchaidh Rua Mhic Lachlainn, who appears in the Lamont Papers in 1612.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This derbhfine name would be Archibald McCain in today’s English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In 1570, Alexander M’Ean of Glassary held the lands at Bormolloch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span></sup>Bormolloch is the farmstead to the immediate east of Creag an Tairbh. <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span></sup>Significantly, Alexander M’Ean is listed in the Scrymgeour family records showing yet another connection between these two families.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>One Campbell tacsman listed in the year 1603 is “John M’Donald V’Ean, alias M’Loauchlan.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In Gaelic, his name was Eáin Mac Dónaill Mhic Eáin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The “alias M’Loauchlan” means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">also known as Mac Lachlainn</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In 1705, another example of the multiple surname use is recorded in the Argyll justiciary records, with “Duncan Vc Lauchlane alias McEan.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>These are examples of a clerk feeling the need to clarify a McCain’s clan affiliation.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">The Mid Argyll MacAlpins are more difficult to locate in the primary sources in the 1400s, but in the 1500s they appear and are linked to the Ailean Mac Eáin family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>On 6 May 1573 John McDonche VcAlpine (Eáin Mac Donnchaidh Mhic Ailpín) was a witness to a sasine given by Alexander Scrymgeour at Kirnan, Kilmichael Glassary parish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Alexander Scrymgeour was father of James Scrymgeour who was married to Aifric Nic Dhonnchaidh Rua (a descendent of Donnchadh Rua Mac Eáin).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>This established a connection in the primary sources between the Mac Ailpín and Mac Eáin families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Next we have, on 4 January 1608, in the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Poltalloch Writs</i> recorded at Inveraray castle, the Earl of Argyll addressed a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">precept of clare constat</i> to Duncan McAlpine (Donnchadh Mac Ailpín) in Garbhallt.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Barry/Documents/Publicity/The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20MacAlpines.docx" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Garbhallt was&nbsp;part of&nbsp;Donnchadh Rua Mac Eáin's lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>By the 1600s, there are many Mac Ailpín families that show up in the records, often living in the same settlements as the McCains other descendants of Ailean Mac Eáin. The MacAlpin families that participated in the DNA test were from the Loch Ederline area, which is on the southern end of Loch Awe within minutes of both Garbhallt and Bormolloch.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">While the research is still on going, the DNA results of the mid Argyll Mac Ailpín family suggests they may be the historical Mac Ailpín family and their paternal line provided other clan progenitors in mid Argyll. The ancestral origins results for the family shows connections to central Scotland and no deep connections to Ireland, which &nbsp;points to an indigenous Cumbric or Pict progenitor of this family. &nbsp;News and research updates of the mid Argyll Mac Ailpín families will be posted on the Mid Argyll Group’s blog page.</span> </o:p></span></span></div><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--><br /><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[1] Heather Frances James, Medieval Rural Settlement, a study of Mid-Argyll, Scotland, (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow) 124.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[2] JRN MacPhail, 175.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[3] Alastair Campbell, The History of Clan Campbell, Volume I, From Origins to Flodden, (Edinburg, Edinburg University Press, 2000) 127.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[4] MacPhail, 225,226.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[5] Harwood,”Poltalloch Writs”, 71.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[6] &nbsp;J Maitland Thomson, ed., Inventory of Documents Relating to the Scrymgeour Family Estates 1611 (Edinburgh: J Skinner and Company, 1912), 24.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[7] Innes, Parochiales, 165. Taken from the Brendalbane Charters.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[8] John Cameron, ed., The Justiciary Records of Argyll and the Isles 1664-1705, Volume 1(Edinburgh, The Stair Society), 75.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>[9] Ibid., 142.</div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>&nbsp;</div></div></div>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-37093060803676863842015-05-02T09:40:00.003-07:002015-05-02T09:40:45.342-07:00R-S1051 ProjectGeorge Chandler is an independent scholar and genetic genealogy researcher.&nbsp; He is the administrator of the R-S1051 Project which is with Family Tree DNA.&nbsp; The families in the Mid Argyll Kinship group are in the R-S1051 haplogroup and are encouraged to also participate in George's project.&nbsp; The families with the R-S1051 all share the same paternal ancestor.&nbsp; Many of the families are from the mid Argyll area have a TMRCA that dates to 800AD to 1500AD.&nbsp; Some of the families in the R-S1051 group go much further back to the TMRCA, dating to Bronze Age Iberia.&nbsp; There are several Portuguese and Spanish families in the group that are the very distant cousins of the Mid Argyll Group families. <br /><br />Link to George Chandler's research:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-s1051/about/background"> R-S1051 Project</a>&nbsp; <br /><br />Below is the introduction to George Chandler's R-S1051 Project. <br /><br /><br />Recently&nbsp;many new SNP's&nbsp;have been discovered for this unique haplogroup which is located below DF13.<br /><br />The&nbsp;majority of this family group&nbsp;have 5 main <span style="background-color: white;">Patriarch </span>SNP's&nbsp;<span style="background-color: cyan;">(S1051, FGC9655, FGC9661, FGC9658 and FGC9657). </span>The current age estimate for these Patriarch SNP's is approximately 3,200 to 4,500 years old&nbsp;and likely originated within&nbsp;what is known as the Bell Beaker culture.&nbsp;When&nbsp;examining other haplogroups of&nbsp;a similar age the S1051 people are very few by comparison.<br /><br />Evidence suggests that the geographic origin of this family group could have been from what is now modern Scotland.<br /><a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/R-S1051/default.aspx?section=results" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">https://www.familytreedna.com/public/R-S1051/default.aspx?section=results</span></a><br />&nbsp;<span style="color: red;">S1051 Project SNP results spreadsheet page 1 of 2</span>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E1iiiFeUgXGA-Trg_whSqbK_sTZI5csja4dRFWZ5-bE/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E1iiiFeUgXGA-Trg_whSqbK_sTZI5csja4dRFWZ5-bE/edit?usp=sharing</a>&nbsp;<br /><span style="color: red;">S1051 Project SNP results spreadsheet page 2 of 2 - FGC17906+</span><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YsOmg_EaoSh3QVKn9u_216ZtN3nI8LO5-NRA5Oscg4s/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YsOmg_EaoSh3QVKn9u_216ZtN3nI8LO5-NRA5Oscg4s/edit?usp=sharing</a><br /><br />On the above spreadsheet links I've placed <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"SNP dates"</span> which are an <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">approximation</span>&nbsp;as these mutation rates can vary. So far on average there is 1&nbsp;Sanger SNP verified per 139 years&nbsp;so it's important to&nbsp;stress that these dates could change slightly&nbsp;as more&nbsp;research needs to be&nbsp;completed.&nbsp;There are instances like the single defining McCeney SNP which likely exceeds 200 years since it's mutation and other examples&nbsp;which&nbsp;were fewer&nbsp;than 139 years. Other factors to consider&nbsp;are the number of SNP's captured from the various sequencing types and the number of raw SNP's which are culled due to reliability issues. The age estimate 139 years per SNP was calculated by using known genealogy, full Y testing, Sanger verification, STR calculations&nbsp;and averaging the number of raw SNP's located below DF13. It's also important to understand that chronology of many of the SNP's (including the 5 main oldest ones) are still unknown.<br />For those in the Mid Argyle FGC17906 Group - they will find this valuable book written by Barry McCain interesting and worth the purchase.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Finding-McCains-Scots-Irish-Odyssey/dp/0985587644/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425241505&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Finding+the+McCains">http://www.amazon.com/Finding-McCains-Scots-Irish-Odyssey/dp/0985587644/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425241505&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Finding+the+McCains</a><br />The following&nbsp;link is to a 64 page paper written by Ronald Henderson that I recently discovered online.&nbsp;Although some concepts found within may stir debate within the historical or scientific community I believe it was well written and worth adding to project page.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">http://www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk/Rex%20Pictorum.pdf</a>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-8334169421130543172015-02-26T08:05:00.002-08:002015-05-01T12:14:32.081-07:00Finding the McCains<b>&nbsp;(<i>this book explores the connections of the McCain family to Ailean Mac Eáin Riabhach, Taoiseach of Glassary circa 1436-1470)</i></b><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">Finding the McCains</h2><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RwQ2jah1Ve4/VOtq3M02WTI/AAAAAAAADx0/JCgH6g0Lii4/s1600/Finding%2BMcCains%2Bfront%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RwQ2jah1Ve4/VOtq3M02WTI/AAAAAAAADx0/JCgH6g0Lii4/s1600/Finding%2BMcCains%2Bfront%2Bcover.jpg" height="640" width="427" /></a></div><br /><br /><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Finding the McCains, is an account of a man’s 40 year odyssey to find the McCain family in Ireland. &nbsp;Senator John McCain and his cousin, novelist Elizabeth Spencer, both include a short history of the McCain family in their respective memoirs Faith of our Fathers and Landscapes of the Heart. &nbsp;Their history is a romantic tale of Highland Scots who supported Mary Queen of Scots and who fled to Ireland after her downfall in 1568. &nbsp;The search for the McCains became a mystery story with clues, false turns, many adventures, and then ultimate success through Y chromosome DNA testing. &nbsp;In 2008 the McCains were reunited with their family that remained in Ireland, after 289 years of separation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The McCain history includes people and events familiar to readers of Irish and Scottish history; Redshanks, Iníon Dubh, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Argyll, the Ulster Migration, and the Scots-Irish, are all part of this family’s history. &nbsp;Faint memories of this past were told for generations in Mississippi and as the research progressed the facts behind these memories were uncovered.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The Y chromosome DNA results revealed that the McCains of Mississippi, which include Senator John McCain’s family, are the same family of Wallace and Harrison McCain, the founders of Canada’s McCain Foods, one of the most successful corporations in the world. &nbsp;They are also the same family as James McKeen who organized the 1718 fleet that began the great Ulster Migration to the English Colonies. &nbsp;All these families are paternally related and they all descend from one Gaelic man named Mac Eáin that lived in Kilmichael Glassary parish, in mid Argyll, in the Scottish Highlands, in the 1400s.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The book tells of the author’s many trips to Ireland in search of his distant cousins there. &nbsp;There are anecdotal stories, some humorous and others involving “famous” people; such as, Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty, Mary Coughlan (Irish Tainste or vice president), Cindy McCain (wife of Senator McCain), Seán Mac Stiofáin (1970s head of the IRA) , Alan Heusaff (WW II German officer in Dublin who later became president of the Celtic League), and Muhammad Ali. &nbsp;There is even an encounter with a Bean Sí (faerie woman) on the windy cold hill of megalithic stone ruins at Loch an Craoibh. &nbsp;All presented from the perspective of a native Mississippian.<span class="sew1wq4tzwudh8r"></span><span class="sew1wq4tzwudh8r"></span>&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Another theme in the book is the Scots-Irish. &nbsp;Contemporary histories about the Scots-Irish present stereotyped and romanticized accounts of this dynamic group. &nbsp;Finding the McCains reveals a more complex history and shows the cultural conflation common in Scots-Irish popular history.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Finding the McCains is an excellent read for all interested in Irish and Scottish history and is an how-to guide for those interested in how-to guide for those who would like to use genetic genealogy to locate their family in the old country and recover lost family history.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To purchase from Amazon: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Finding-McCains-Scots-Irish-Odyssey/dp/0985587644/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424965980&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Finding+the+McCains"><span style="color: #ef005b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finding the McCains</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">To purchase from Ulster Heritage directly send US $20 (postage paid) to:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Ulster Heritage</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">PO Box 884</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Oxford MS 38655</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">USA&nbsp; </span></div>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-35814175998710484702015-02-16T09:58:00.001-08:002015-02-16T09:58:28.260-08:00The Scots-Irish: Native Tribes of Britain<a href="http://thescotsirish.blogspot.com/2015/02/native-tribes-of-britain.html?spref=bl">The Scots-Irish: Native Tribes of Britain</a>: The majority of the Scots-Irish are descendants of the native Celtic tribes of north Britain.&nbsp; Here is a link to an article on the BBC Histo...Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-39510820569249843032013-11-06T10:18:00.001-08:002013-11-06T10:18:24.896-08:00DNA Project UpdateWe have two sub groups that have developed in the Mid Argyll Kinship Group.&nbsp; The DNA locus 485 has a value of 13 for all the Mac Eáin origin surnames and a value of 16 for the rest of the men in the project.&nbsp; The norm for the R-L21 haplogroup is in fact 15.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, both sub groups within the Mid Argylll Kinship Group, i.e. the R-L21 9919 A-1 group to use geneticist jargon, have a 485 different than the norm.&nbsp; This is a valuable research factor. <br /><br />This mutation of the Mac Eáin sub group may have happened circa 1450 to 1550.&nbsp; Pure speculation.&nbsp; It may be 'the' marker of families that descend from Donnchaidh Mór Mac Eáin, as his family used the surname McCain beginning in the late 1400s. <br />Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-28136286652039064412013-10-09T12:24:00.000-07:002013-10-09T12:24:09.311-07:00The Viking BritonsLink to a fascinating article by Scottish historian Tim Clarkson.&nbsp; Most students of Irish and Scottish history are very familiar with the Gall Ghaeil, but Tim Clarkson has proposed that there was also a Gall Bhreathanaigh.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gall Ghaeil means the foreign Gaels and Gall Bhreathanaigh means the foreign Britons, as in the Celtic people that lived in Scotland.&nbsp; This is linked to McCain history and our DNA results.&nbsp; When I have more time I will post an explanation.&nbsp; This article specifically about Clan Galbriath, but relative to the McCains. <br /><br />The story here:&nbsp; <a href="http://senchus.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/clan-galbraith-part-3-viking-britons/#comment-1593">The Viking Britons</a>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-77066172815981539462013-08-19T09:52:00.001-07:002013-08-19T09:52:42.654-07:00z9919 A-1There is another DNA project that is researching our group it is the z9919 project. Our Mid Argyll Kinship group is a part of this study, we are designated z9919 A-1 in their nomenclature.&nbsp; <br /><div><br />The z9919 cluster is a relatively large genetic cluster with at least 300 members so far, well-known for their characteristic 459=9-9, YCA=19-19 pattern (double 9s at the 459 marker, and double 19s at the YCAII marker). </div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>For those interesting this is the <strong>9919 and RecLOH Project </strong>under Family Tree.&nbsp; I joined as it will help with our project as well.&nbsp; I see some interesting data developing around this haplogroup.&nbsp; I think we are dealing with an indigenous Celtic tribal group located initially in central Scotland, from the Firth of Clyde east to Dundee area.&nbsp; </div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>I will post news on this as it comes in. </div>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-23722353000761161452013-08-11T10:33:00.000-07:002014-10-02T17:25:44.425-07:00Burial Slab of Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Allein<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kJGiAawoWgw/UgfI7BEHsvI/AAAAAAAAC6g/bzQA6TqYIAQ/s1600/Cloch+Mhic+Eain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kJGiAawoWgw/UgfI7BEHsvI/AAAAAAAAC6g/bzQA6TqYIAQ/s1600/Cloch+Mhic+Eain.jpg" height="400" width="151" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The burial slab of Donnchadh Mór Mac Allein Mhic Lachlainn. Better&nbsp;known in history as Donnchadh Mac&nbsp;Eain, or in English, Duncan McCain. &nbsp; He was active from the late 1460s until circa 1514.&nbsp; He was a son of Ailean Mac Eáin Riabhach.&nbsp; Ailean was given a charter to a large holding of land in Glassary in 1436 by his <em>cousin </em>and the overall Taoiseach of Clann Lachlainn, Eáin Mac Lachlainn.&nbsp; The exact nature of the kinship between Ailean and Eáin is not known, the term <em>cousin </em>had a very broad meaning in the Gaelic world in the fifteenth century.&nbsp; While the kinship connection is a mystery, there is no doubt of the clan affiliation.&nbsp; Ailean held his lands through Eáin Mac Lachlainn and his descendants continued this practice in both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ﻿</div><br />Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-63934062790225813752013-07-10T12:25:00.000-07:002015-05-01T21:45:23.527-07:00The Key to the Mid Argyll Group<div style="text-align: justify;">The key to the Mid Argyll Group research is the historical figure of Donnchadh Mac Eáin.&nbsp; As Captain White, who did the survey of Donnchadh's burial slab in 1875, pointed out when speaking about the slab, it is one of the few burial slabs that&nbsp;can be linked to a historical figure. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To quote Captain White, 'The writing in this case is tolerably perfect, and there is no difficulty in reading the initiatory words, ''Hic iascet Duncanus." Now, in 1479, King James III granted to Colin, Earl of Argyll, the lands of Gareald, Craigenewir (in the vally of the Add) and Tangladlew (within the barony of Glassary), resigned by <i>Duncan Makcane.</i>&nbsp; With the aid of this information, if we turn again to the inscription, the following, I think, can be deciphered--&nbsp; Hic iacet Duncanus&nbsp;Roy M'Allan --&nbsp; and at the top of the slab the name 'Lachlan.' This appears to be one of those rare instances where we are enabled to identify a mediaeval tombstone in the West Highlands with a substantive individual of whom there is documentary record.'&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain White was correct Donnchadh appears is the Scottish crown records and the Argyll records.&nbsp; He is the vector.&nbsp;&nbsp; Through him we can follow his descendants and those of his three brothers, Dónall, Eáin Riabhach, and Giolla Chríost.&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In most of the 1400s and 1500s records that Donnchadh and his descendants appear, they continue the use of the Mac Eáin surname.&nbsp; Usually is&nbsp;found put into Lallans, but sometimes left in a Gaelic spelling.&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is interesting that we know so much about Donnchadh as his House, at Dunemuck, was not the head of the clan, it was his older brother Dónall who was the Taoiseach of the Dunadd Mac Lachlainns.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;House were Dónall of Dunadd, Donnchadh Mór&nbsp;of Dunemuch, Eáin Riabhach of Killiemuchanock, and Giolla Chríost&nbsp;of Creig an Tairbh.&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the research progresses I will post more of these brothers and their descendants from the primary sources.&nbsp; Luckily the habit of writing a man's Derbfine name was often followed in the Argyll records, so that we not only get the man's name, but his line of descent, usually&nbsp;for&nbsp;four, sometimes three, generations.&nbsp; </div><br />Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-46473834276701461362013-07-02T09:42:00.002-07:002013-07-02T09:42:23.975-07:00Mid Argyll Group DNA website link<br /><br /><br />Link:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/public/MidArgyllKinshipGroup/default.aspx">Mid Argyll Group DNA Project public website</a>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-69139708096756172062013-06-30T13:57:00.000-07:002013-06-30T13:57:08.061-07:00Mid Argyll Group DNA Project Launched<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zneFrGW6-AY/Ti8dFAyujwI/AAAAAAAACAk/rxaD8q82FcU/s408/Dal+Riada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zneFrGW6-AY/Ti8dFAyujwI/AAAAAAAACAk/rxaD8q82FcU/s408/Dal+Riada.jpg" height="320" width="267" /></a></div>The research into the Mid Argyll Kinship Group picking up pace with the creation of the Mid Argyll Group DNA project.&nbsp; The project will collect DNA results from those men are in the group, which means every man will have the same paternal ancestry.&nbsp; The project is only open to men that are a paternal DNA match to the group. <br /><br /><span>The project's goal is to research the&nbsp;Mid Argyll Kinship Group&nbsp;circa 1300 to late 1500s.&nbsp;.&nbsp;The geographic area of the study is the parish of Kilmichael Glassary and the surrounding districts, such as Bute, Arran, Cowal, etc. </span><br /><span></span><br />The surnames in the group are Duncan, Gay, Gray, Henry, Henrie, McAlpin, McCain, McCane, McKane, McKain, McKean, McKeen, McDonald, and McLea.&nbsp; In Gaelic, Mac Donnchaidh, Mag Aodh, Glass, Mac Eanruig, Mac Ailpín, Mac Eáin, Mac Dónaill,&nbsp;and Mac an Leagha.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another surname of interest in the research are McLachlain (Mac Lachlainn) and the project is open to any male that is high level DNA match to the group. <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span>The reason&nbsp;are so many surnames in the group is because surnames were not fixed in Argyll in the 1500s.&nbsp; Gaelic families often followed traditional patronymic customs of mid Argyll.&nbsp; This generated several surnames within the same family during that century.&nbsp; This is why we have McAlpin, Henry, Duncan, McDonald, etc., showing up within the same paternal clan.</span><br /><br /><span>The surnames in the DNA match group were in use </span><span>in Kilmichael Glassary in the 1500s. &nbsp;Most of these surnames&nbsp;appear in records connected to the Mac Lachlainn 'clan'&nbsp; of Dunadd.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is speculated that the Mid Argyll Kinship group is actually the Mac Lachlainn of Dunadd family.&nbsp; </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>This project will have Dr Kyle MacLea as an administrator, he is a geneticist by profession and teaches at a university.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will be a co-administrator helping out with the primary source research and Gaelic language elements.&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Link to Join the Mid Argyll Kinship Group DNA project:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/project-join-request.aspx?group=MidArgyllKinshipG">Mid Argyll Group</a>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-12370544763005180022011-08-09T05:13:00.000-07:002011-12-04T19:35:39.098-08:00Mid Argyll Group Surnames<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;">The Mid Argyll Kinship Group includes the surnames, listed in their anglicised forms and then in Gaelic, MacAlpin (Mac Ailpin), McCain (Mac Eáin), MacDonald (Mac Dónaill), Duncan (Mac Donnchaidh), Henry (Mac Eanruig) and MacLea (Mac an Leagha).<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6712554794541661902&amp;postID=1237054476300518002&amp;from=pencil#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;; font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> &nbsp;These are not ‘clan’ surnames, meaning they do not necessarily relate to historical clans from mid Argyll.&nbsp; They are surnames created from Gaelic patronymic naming customs.&nbsp; Surnames were not fixed in Argyll until very late, circa 1500s into the 1600s.&nbsp; Even then the use of clan surnames was not universal and was often a form only found on legal documents written by government officials, rather than the surname a family actually used in their community.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6712554794541661902&amp;postID=1237054476300518002&amp;from=pencil#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;; font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>&nbsp; Clan surnames were used more by older sons of landed families.&nbsp; The fact that the Mid Argyll Kinship families shared the same paternal kinship, but were using at least five different surnames is not unusual. &nbsp;They do share some obvious connections.&nbsp; They are all of Highland Gaelic ancestry and have histories connected to Argyll.&nbsp; Several of the families have primary source records that placed them in specific locations in mid Argyll.&nbsp; </span></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6712554794541661902&amp;postID=1237054476300518002&amp;from=pencil#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;; font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;">McCain Family DNA Project,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;">http://mccaindna.ulsterheritage.com/ </span></div></div><div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6712554794541661902&amp;postID=1237054476300518002&amp;from=pencil#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;; font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Segoe Media Center&quot;;">, Michael Newton, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World</i>, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000, pages 136, 137.&nbsp; </span></div></div></div>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712554794541661902.post-63266640137181621142011-07-26T13:03:00.000-07:002011-07-26T13:03:31.010-07:00Argyll Redshank 1577<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cz_ohCHTKjI/Ti8dUzvt5RI/AAAAAAAACAo/HQlKkqF5LFc/s1600/Argyll+Gael+1577.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cz_ohCHTKjI/Ti8dUzvt5RI/AAAAAAAACAo/HQlKkqF5LFc/s320/Argyll+Gael+1577.jpg" width="178" /></a><br /><i>Argyll Redshank 1577</i></div>Barry R McCainhttps://plus.google.com/117620334339387867421noreply@blogger.com0